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Vintage Port Notes February 2020

Don Schliff began collecting Port in 1969, inspired by a restaurant named the Studio Grill in Hollywood where Vintage Port was served by the glass. For many years the restaurant’s owner Ardison Philips organized vertical Port tastings on the Saturday between Christmas and New Year. When the restaurant closed (and Philips went on to be a winemaker), Don Schiff took over the role, organizing a tasting of 1945s from 13 shippers in October 1993. Other tastings have followed, including a retrospective of 1955s in 2007, ‘Great Sevens’ in 2017 and 100 Years of Taylor Fladgate in 2019